Committee · Q1 2025
Planning & Development COW #02
Mar 18, 2025
Recorded present
Solomon Awa · Kimberly Smith · Harry Flaherty · Amber Aglukark · Methusalah Kunuk · Kyle Sheppard · Romeyn Stevenson
Recorded absent
Simon Nattaq · Samuel Tilley
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Committee advanced a six-unit housing rezoning while questioning bedroom mix and snowmobile-trail protection.
- A federal lot transfer for a nominal dollar carried 5–1, with Mayor Awa recorded opposed at committee.
- Debris cleanup and access-road ownership remained live issues before acquisition by-law readings.
DOCUMENTED QUESTIONS · WRITTEN MINUTES
How many bedrooms and how much floor area would each proposed unit have?
- Answer recorded
- Planning recorded five two-bedroom units and one one-bedroom unit and said minimum-size rules applied.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Were there plans to acquire private property crossed by the proposed snowmobile trail?
- Answer recorded
- Planning described existing Happy Valley connections and said staff would examine trails on private property.
- Result or follow-up
- Trail acquisition work remained under review.
How would the trail be marked so the land remained reserved for snowmobile use?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said it was designated and would receive trail markers after discussion with Public Works.
- Result or follow-up
- Marker placement was still to be discussed.
Was Planning aware that council wanted developments to include three-bedroom units?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said staff conveyed that preference and the draft General Plan and zoning by-law included larger-unit language.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Had the City acquired other owned and surveyed lots in the same vicinity?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said nearby surveyed lots remained federal and the City had acquired none in the previous 20 years.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Was it reasonable to require the federal government to clear debris before transfer?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said the proposed transfer was on an as-is basis.
- Result or follow-up
- Cleanup options were to return before the acquisition by-law readings.
Did the City own the access-road land?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said it was untitled municipal land under municipal jurisdiction but not registered to the City at land titles.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Would the Unsightly Lands By-law apply to the lot?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said its department did not enforce that by-law.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
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